Improved wash-stand and desk



' l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVED WASH-STAND AND DESK.

Specication forming,lr part of VLetters Patent N o. 56,876, dated August 7, 1.866.

To all whom fit 'may concern:

Be it known that I, D.4 BASHORE, of Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved WashfStand; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact `description of the construction of `the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View, and Fig. 2 is a View of the internal structure.

A is a lid, in the usual forni, except that` it has the slant and structure 'ot' a writingdesk lid; B, C, and D, three tanks, constructed withv lids-one, B, for hot'water, one, C, forcold washing-water, and one, D, for drinking-water. D, Fig. 2, shows the lid open.

f is' a space made in the construction of thetank B for a heating-lamp. This tankvis made of metal and the Water heated by simply placing the spirit-lamp Linder it. E is a space for the Waste-water pail; g, fancet-pipe to the hot-Water tank; h, faucet-pipe to the middle tan k`, i', faucet-,pipe to the drinkin g-water tank 5 j, Wash-bowl, constructed with the usual discharge-pipe, which will empty into the wastewater pail in space E 5 kan d m, doors to shelves for towels, Sto.; l, drawer for writing materials, Snc. u and 0, apertures for ventilation for the lamp atf when lid Ais` closed.

The lid A may be closed, the waste-water pail removed from E, and the writer use this space to bring his body near to the stand, and thus use it for a writng-table.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the Water-heating tank B with the other two tanks C and D in a Wash-stand, andthe construction of the wastewater space E, to adapt the stand to use as a writing-desk, as specified.

D. w. BAsHoEE.

Witnesses:

I. W. WETMORE, E. GAMPHAUSEN. 

